Earth Rocks! Spring Break Fest

Celebrate our amazing planet during DOE Spring Recess with Earth Rocks! — a week-long festival of hands-on exploration and discovery at Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

Throughout the week, activities are organized around three Earth-themed adventures. Join us today for activities focused on:

🌱 Soil, Plants, and Food

Discover the fascinating world of plants and sustainable food systems through interactive workshops and demonstrations. Explore plant-based dyes, learn about hydroponic farming with Mi Oh My Farms, and pot your own scented plants with Brooklyn Botanic Garden educators to take home and nurture.

Schedule

Programs

Animal Veterinary

🕒 10:30 am – 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Learn how to use tools such as a stethoscope, otoscope, and thermometer to perform a check-up on a fuzzy animal friend at our animal care station.

Nature Walk and Planting Workshop 

🕒 11:00 am – 11:45 am

Join Farmer Max from the Magnolia Tree Earth Center and learn about caring for different plants on a nature walk on our Rooftop, then work together to plant seedlings like mint, rosemary, and chives to create a sensory herb garden on our Rooftop. Pot up a seed to take home and track your plants growth throughout the Spring! 

Healthy Eating Workshop

🕒 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm

Learn simple recipes with the Magnolia Tree Earth Center that you can make at home using fresh herbs!

Hattie Carthan Film Screening and Art Workshop

🕒 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

Learn about Brooklyn’s Tree Lady in this animated short film celebrating the life of Bed-Stuy community environmental leader Hattie Carthan. After the 15 minute film hear stories from the filmmaker and Magnolia Tree Earth Center,  then make art inspired by Hattie Carthan’s community activism.

Pachamama Musical Performance

🕒 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Flor Bromley will be performing selections from her album “Pachamama,” a bilingual (English and Spanish) collection of songs inspired by Mother Earth. It’s a perfect tool for teaching children about taking care of nature and learning about how nature takes care of us.

ColorLab Art Studio

Earth Homes

🕒 10:30 am – 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Create an Earth Home sculpture inspired by artist Beverly Buchanan in BCM’s art studio. Use materials like clay, sticks, rocks, and other natural materials to create your own small home structure. 

Nature’s Engineers STEM Makerspace

What’s the Juice?

🕒 10:30 am – 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Join us in Nature’s Engineers as we build our own food-powered battery and discover the amazing science of electricity.